Due to the failure of the tape recorder of ERS-2
on June 22, 2003 the data coverage of GOME had been limited to the ESA Ground
station network in the northern hemisphere (Latest news on ERS-2 can be found here).

On behalf of ESA, the DLR Antarctic
Receiving Station at the O'Higgins base was acquiring additional GOME instrument
data from the ERS-2 satellite from October 11 to December 3, 2003. This valuable
data allowed near-real time monitoring of the ozone hole over the South Pole
using ERS-2 to resume. The O'Higgins receiving station is operated by the German
Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of DLR. This was the first time that near-real-time
data are being sent from O'Higgins to DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Further
data was acquired at O'Higgins from January to March 2004..

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The additional GOME data for the southern hemisphere is provided by DLRs Antarctic
Receiving Station in O'Higgins

The European
Space Agency (ESA) is acknowledged for the GOME Level 2 data. Special thanks
to the ERS-2 receiving stations Kiruna (operated by SSC),
Gatineau (operated by NRCan)
and Maspalomas (operated by INTA)